Example sentences of "only be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'Course I 'ave n't , you 've only been gone a minute . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 3 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 4 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 5 | The planet had only been recontacted a century earlier . |
| 6 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 7 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 8 | This may be an odd thing to say when you 've only been married a month , but it 's true . |
| 9 | Lamb 's QC had told the appeal he felt harshly treated when Surrey , whose bowlers had actually been caught ball-tampering three times , had only been handed a £1,000 suspended fine . |
| 10 | He had only been commissioned a week . |
| 11 | Yeah , she 's only been driving a year , two years . |
| 12 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 13 | For take-off the tail should only be raised a small amount . |
| 14 | With the current boom in interest in opera , though , this disc enters a very competitive field indeed and so , once again , can only be given a general recommendation . |
| 15 | It could only be given a new lease of life by grounding its themes in a transformed image of a much more efficient , modernised , client-centred public sector , to which Labour has not yet seriously directed itself . |
| 16 | The matter could conceivably be overlooked : either if ( instead of from your last employer ) , you are due to get a pension from an earlier employer ; or if you will only be receiving a State pension — and not a company pension in addition . |
| 17 | would be slightly different because they , we 'd only be collecting a part of the premium we would n't be collecting their investment part if that 's in arrears . |
| 18 | It 's just that I 've just got too many at , it can only be done a week before |
| 19 | Most potholes can only be seen a few yards ahead , and cars swerving without warning hardly contribute to road safety . |
| 20 | Our limited ambition can , therefore , only be to sustain a reasonable quality of life for ourselves and for those animals that serve us . |
| 21 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 22 | The philosopher Mark Johnson has recently produced what can only be called a constructivist account of linguistic meaning and reasoning . |
| 23 | MYSELF and Marco Polo is a working model of a novel , a clever toy , a verbal tournament , a facetious blueprint for a possible future seriousness : it could only be called a success if its author 's aim was merely to intrigue , and I do not feel that Paul Griffiths can be that crude . |
| 24 | My own family was at once strongly nuclear and part of what can only be called a clan . |
| 25 | Elsewhere the band choose what can only be called a hardcore bubblegum sound and by the time you get to the final furlong , this regularity means the fizz is starting to fade and you dearly want the guitars to twist and shout and sing . |
| 26 | Each of the five judgments rambles over the territory in what can only be called a head-scratching way , making it impossible for the consumer of the judgment to know at the end just what the law is held to be , except negatively , and then only negatively on a few points . |
| 27 | Liquids can only be compressed a very small amount and then only under high pressures . |
| 28 | Indeed , the primitive matchlocks could only be discharged a maximum of sixteen times during a whole day of battle . |
| 29 | It is this turn to ‘ passivity ’ which remains critical to this very day ; today 's tabloid press can only be reinforcing a process which began well over a century ago . |
| 30 | I was going through what could only be described a ‘ drop-out ’ period . |